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Word: viejas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Habana Vieja, an architectural treasury of crumbling Spanish colonial mansions and palaces, is all anyone needs to fill half a day and requires only comfortable shoes and a wad of George Washingtons. While no one openly begs here and Cubans are almost universally polite, they're also hungry. If you ask directions or take a picture of an old woman in flowered headdress smoking a cigar, be prepared to fork over a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Class: Cuba Chic | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...WAVE OF DOOM? Earlier this month, a scientist at University College, London, raised concerns that part of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on one of the Canary Islands could fall into the ocean, creating a giant wave that would annihilate large swaths of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. "If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the news," said Dr. Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This from the Land That Brought Us Teletubbies? | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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